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Justinian I · The Digest of Justinian §4.4.15.pr

Subsequent Purchaser Recourse Against Predecessors

Passage 717 of 9271 · Latin

Summary

Explains that when restitution is granted, the subsequent purchaser can seek recourse against their predecessor (author), and the same legal principle applies even if the sale has gone through multiple parties.

[GAIUS libro quarto ad edictum prouinciale. ] §4.4.15.prSed ubi restitutio datur, posterior emptor reuerti ad auctorem suum poterit: per plures quoque personas si emptio ambulauerit, idem iuris erit.
[GAIUS in the fourth book on the Provincial Edict.] But where restitution is granted, the subsequent purchaser will be able to recourse against his own author; even if the sale has passed through several persons, the same rule of law will apply.

Notes

  1. §4.4.15.prauctorem — The term `auctor` (accusative `auctorem`) here refers to the "seller" or "predecessor in title" who transferred the property and is liable to the purchaser for eviction (warranty of title).
  2. §4.4.15.pridem iuris — A partitive genitive construction where the genitive of the noun `iuris` depends on the neuter nominative pronoun `idem`, meaning "the same of law" or "the same legal rule shall apply."

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Justinian I, The Digest of Justinian §4.4.15.pr. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi2806.phi002.humanitext-lat1:4.4.15.pr

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